Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies</em> provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice.</p><p>In more than 30 essays the volume offers a history of the concept of the transnational and takes readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam from Mexico's border crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together the essays develop new ways for Americanists to read events images sound literature identity film politics or performance transnationally through the work of diverse figures such as Confucius Edward Said Pauline Hopkins Poe Faulkner Michael Jackson Onoto Watanna and others. This timely volume also addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from Lincoln in Africa to Obama and Mandela to Trump. </p><p>The essays written by prominent global Americanists as well as the emerging scholars shaping the field seek to provide foundational resources as well as experimental and forward-leaning approaches to Transnational American Studies.</p>